Evan Ratliff
Host, Shell Game. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Evan Ratliff is an investigative reporter, author, and co-founder of The Atavist Magazine and Pop-Up Magazine. He is the creator and host of the podcast Shell Game and wrote the bestselling book The Mastermind.
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Voice AI Has Passed the Uncanny Valley and Evades Detection
“We're pretty close to someone not being able to detect it at all, and you could say, well, there's an uncanny valley, But I think even now we're up the like back slope of the uncanny valley when it comes to the voice stuff. Like many people will go through a f…”
Interviewees Are More Candid With AI Agents Than Human Reporters
“When it comes to people asking questions or conversing with ChatGPT, there's a quality of, you don't necessarily feel like there's someone there, and you might be a little more intimate than you would have otherwise. And that can be very valuable in an intervi…”
Ratliff: Voice Cloning Is the Greatest Scamming Technology Ever Invented
“This is the greatest scamming technology that has ever been invented.”
Commercial Voice AI Therapists Lack Meaningful Scientific Research Backing
“The thing I can say for sure is they're being introduced without any scientific research showing, I mean, I found one study on voice therapy, one controlled study that had been done, And there are voice therapists on the market right now.”
Ratliff's AI Bot Disarmed Suspicion by Accusing Humans of Being AI
“It just puts someone off guards, you know, saying, If it asks like, hey, am I talking to an AI? I do it with the scammer sometimes. Hey, is this an AI? And they'll be like, no, this is a real person. But I think it kind of turns your brain around to where, whe…”
Many AI Products Solve Niche Executive Issues Irrelevant to Most
“I feel like that use case, to me, it comes with a lot of the issues that a lot of AI products to me come with, which is that they, the people who have designed them generally have one set of problems that do not apply to most humans on the face of this earth.”
Extended LLM Interactions Expose Generic Predictive Training Over Sentience
“The more that you talk to it, the more generic it feels to you. The more you can actually feel The training data, the sort of, like, distilling down the training data and the predictive aspect. Like, oh, it's trying to predict what a human would say in this gi…”
Scammers Are Deploying Voice AI to Automate Fraud Victim Filtering
“It's already being deployed for scams as we speak, including volume scams where you can just use AIs to call people all the time and then narrow down the number of marks and then send it to a human operator to close the deal basically.”
Ratliff Used Voice AI Technologies Without Companies' Prior Knowledge
“I didn't work with them. I, everybody's technology that I used without their knowledge, which is both to protect me and them. Like, I use these calling platforms and other technologies, and none of them knew until I called and interviewed them that I had used …”
LLMs Flatten Chronology by Remixing Decades-Old Events With Recent Ones
“What it was doing as these chatbots do is it was actually remixing the knowledge that it had. So it would take problems that I had given it chronologically that happened 20 years ago for me and sort of project them into the present and mix them with something …”
Social Politeness Prevents Humans From Calling Out Suspected AI Voices
“It's also, it's quite rude to suggest to someone that they sound like an AI. So people err on the side of caution and don't say, hey, you sound like an AI, because that would be very insulting to someone who's like, no, actually I'm human.”
AI Agents Fabricate Physical Details to Pretend They Exist
“And so, yeah, it, one of, some of the funniest parts are when it kind of pretends that it exists in the real world and tries to have physical manifestations, because it'll make up Absolutely anything to carry out the conversation.”
Enthusiastic Voice AI Agents Often Sound Sarcastic to Human Listeners
“In an attempt to show enthusiasm, it actually sort of came off to him as sarcastic. So, like, oh, you know, thanks for all those texts about the team. And he was like, oh, did I text too much? And he was like, no, no, it was really great. But it can have this …”
Unexpected AI Encounters in Job Interviews and Meetings Will Surge
“I know people who have gone to job interviews, to meetings, where they encounter an AI when they do not expect to encounter an AI, and I think we're gonna see more and more of that in the next months, years.”
Children Are Far Less Unsettled by AI Voices Than Adults
“My theory, which I think was borne out, was like, that maybe the kids wouldn't be weirded out by it in the same way that adults are, because they've grown up with Synthetic voices. Like, they've heard Siri. They've heard Google giving directions. Like, all tha…”
Ratliff Prompted His AI Voice Clone to Engage With Telemarketers
“I told it, like, accept any offer. Like, participate in any insurance plan. Like, whatever. It was prompted to be very accepting. So when someone calls with a health insurance or a new roof or whatever they're gonna call with, it's gonna engage them all the wa…”
Ratliff Wrote a Magazine-Length Biography to Prime His AI Clone
“I did. I did write a small, a magazine-length biography. I wasn't interesting enough for a full-length book biography, but I gave it a magazine-length biography of myself.”
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